Elizabeth Baines

I am honoured to have a Normblog profile up today.

Just back from a meeting at Cornerhouse with Manchizzle blogger and writer Kate Feld, the brains behind the Manchester Blogstory commissio...

Here's another book I read in Wales: A Hidden Life, the fourth of Adele Geras's vivid adult sagas packed with memorable characters a...

My next project: Manchester Blogstory: What would You Do ? Well, I said last post that after all the drama production I've been involved...

'I wanna be in this film! Aw, go on, let me!' That was one young lad standing watching as we filmed last night. Seemed to think it w...

A new experience for me yesterday: night filming. Last night at half-three I was standing on a porch in a business park, lighting up a fag (...

For a person who calls herself literary, I do shamefully little reading. As I have written before, unlike others, whom I envy, I find it ver...

This month John Baker is tackling the age-old question of 'inspiration' by running a series of pieces by writers describing how they...

Back from Wales (and whitewashing walls) to find the bound proofs of my collection of stories waiting in the hall. Strange to see several o...

I'm still pretty tired after the play, and I'm off now to the Welsh hills to recuperate and gear up for my next commission, which I...

Now that's nice and enough to pull you out of your post-production anticlimax - a nice review of The Processing Room on Manchester Conf...

We held our last meeting in the run-up to the play, but I don't think it was just the play which prevented me from finishing the book b...

So it's all over - the rehearsals, the publicity, the week of the play spent in town from morning till night and living on peanuts and ...

_MG_2348 Originally uploaded by Tom Wright 1964 First night for The Processing Room last night. Wow. We were so nervous beforehand - ...

What an amazing day I had on Friday. First I met my lovely publisher Jen from Salt . Well, of course I think Jen can do magic because she...

For once I didn't go to rehearsals as I had rushing around to do, and between picking up Tracy's trailer for our show and dropping ...

Oh dear, the ending of my play! After Mary-Ann expressed doubts about it, I spent half a morning thinking about how to reword it. Last night...

An anouncement: Adele Geras will be reading at Manky Poets at Chorlton Library this Friday (20th) at 7.30 pm. Adele is best known as a writ...

Andrew Edwards of the Manchester radio station ALLFM (96.9) is recording interviews with the theatre companies involved in 24:7, to be put ...

I'm listening to Art Radio , the amazing project/exhibition which is on at Cornerhouse. Galleries 1 & 2 have been transformed to a t...